The new event series ‘AGYA Literary Salon’ hosts both established and emerging Arab and German authors to discuss their literary careers, visions, and latest works. The Salon especially aims to introduce new literary talents and unknown texts to the public, presenting new thoughts, expressing human values, and providing a source for inspiration. The second Salon […]
Wednesday OCT 12 6:00–7:30 PM PST at The Poetry Center Humanities 512, San Francisco State University co-presented by The Poetry Center and Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, SF State free […]
Over the last two decades, the term less translated languages has emerged to describe languages that are less often the source of translation in the international exchange of linguistic goods, […]
Professor Hammad discusses the life and legacy of Layla Murad, one of the most beloved and remembered Arab singing stars in the twentieth century, to analyze politics of sexuality, ethnicity, […]
Saïd Khatibi is a novelist, travel writer, translator, and cultural journalist, born in 1984 in Bou Saâda, Algeria. He writes in Arabic and French and translates between both. He has […]
This panel will discuss contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’. Distinguished international writers, translators and researchers […]
Lancaster Uni's MENAWA Book Club will have their first meeting of the fall season on October 20, 5 pm UK time, to discuss Noor Naga's If An Egyptian Cannot Speak […]
Writers, translators and editors celebrate new writing from Palestine. Featuring Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Alice Youssef, Sonia Nimr, Sawad Hussain, Jehan Bseiso, Louis Allday, Suchitra Vijayan, Meg Arenberg and […]
Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies is hosting a book talk with Yasmin El-Rifae to mark the launch of Radius, which tells the story of those Egyptians who organised to intervene in cases of sexual violence against protesters.
